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Naples 
30/11/2016 Culture

The international congress Napoli all’epoca di Llull (Naples in Llull’s Lifetime), celebrates Llull Year from an Italian perspective

The Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa and the Archivo di Stato di Napoli are holding the international congress Llull: Filosofia, Filologia, Pedagogia, Storia. Napoli all’epoca di Llull from 20th November to 3rd December. This will bring about thirty experts to Naples to discuss the different aspects of Llull’s work, a figure whose importance was on a par with the Italian Dante Alighieri.
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Oxford and Birmingham 
25/11/2016 Culture

Llull Year: Symposiums in Birmingham and Oxford to commemorate 700 years of the death of Ramon Llull

The celebration of Llull Year in 2016 commemorates the seventh centenary of the death of extraordinary thinker Ramon Llull and provides an opportunity to showcase the importance of his contribution to the world and his influence on numerous European intellectuals. In November the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham mark this occasion with two symposiums and an exhibition.  
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Cork 
14/10/2016 Culture

'Miramar comes to Cork: A Symposium on the Legacy of Ramon Llull at University College Cork

The Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies University College Cork in conjunction with the Institut Ramon Llull present 'Miramar comes to Cork: A Symposium on the Legacy of Ramon Llull' on Friday 14 october. This event is part of the international programme organised in commemoration of seventh centenary of the death of this universal thinker. 
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Óbidos 
30/09/2016 Literature

Joan Margarit, Joaquim Nadal and Pere Villalba take the Llull Year to the Óbidos International Literature Festival

From 22nd September to 2nd October the Óbidos International Literature Festival, in Portugal, will be holding its second edition, commemorating the 500th anniversary of the publication of Thomas More’s Utopia. The festival also remembers the 700th anniversary of the death of Ramon Llull, and it has invited Joan Margarit, Joaquim Nadal and Pere Villalba to take part in three conversations and poetry readings along with different Portuguese writers on 30th September.
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Montreal 
23/09/2016 Literature

Author Sebastià Alzamora featured at FIL, the International Festival of Literature in Montreal

Nearly 200 authors and artists from all disciplines and from all around the world gather in Montreal every year for the Festival international de la littérature (FIL). The events of the next edition of the FIL include readings, dance performances, musical events, roundtable discussions and exhibitions. 
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Montreal 
19/09/2016 Culture

Montreal commemorates ANY LLULL, the Centennial of Ramon Llull

The Llull Year international program includes a travelling exhibition and over 50 activities, including concerts, poetry readings and academic and literary events all over Europe, America and North Africa. 
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Havana 
22/05/2016 Music

Llull Year goes to Cuba with a concert by Maria del Mar Bonet

Llull Year arrives in Cuba this Sunday, 22nd May, with the concert ‘Alenar Llull’, given by Maria del Mar Bonet and Borja Penalba. The concert, which will be held as part of ‘Barnasants in Cuba’, is one of the events celebrating Llull Year that the governments of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands are promoting together. It will take place on Sunday, 22nd May in the emblematic El Gato Tuerto hall in Havana, with a press conference beforehand at which the figure of Ramon Llull ...
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13/05/2016 Culture

Ramon Llull now has a Wikipedia entry in Romanian, Serbian and Hungarian thanks to the Wikipedia editathon ‘Who’s Afraid of Ramon Llull?’

Fifty students from all over the world took part in the Wiki marathon ‘Who’s Afraid of Ramon Llull?’, organized by the Institut Ramon Llull in collaboration with the Amical Wikipedia association. All in all, ten articles in different languages were expanded and improved, especially the versions in Romanian, Serbian and Hungarian. One of the activities organized for Llull Year, the Wiki marathon took place on the last weekend in April in different universities in Germany, the USA, ...
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Modena 
03/05/2016 Culture

The University of Modena, in Italy, is organizing a study symposium on Ramon Llull

On 3rd May the University of Modena will be holding a Lullian Symposium, that is, a study session dedicated to the dissemination of the books and philosophy of Ramon Llull. The event, which is part of the events organized for Llull Year, will consist chiefly of about ten lectures on the subject of Llull given by Catalan and Italian academics, as well as a guided tour of the Estense University Library’s Llull collection in Modena.
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Palma 
01/04/2016 Culture

A group of British students travel to Mallorca to take part in the activity “Following in the Footsteps of Ramon Llull”

A group of students from the universities of Durham, Newcastle, Liverpool and Cambridge – universities that offer Catalan studies with the support of the Institut Ramon Llull – made a cultural journey to Palma to take part, from 1st to 7th April, in the activity “Following in the Footsteps of Ramon Llull”, designed to shed light on the figure of the Mallorcan philosopher through guided tours, cultural walks and literary workshops.
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Paris 
22/03/2016 Arts

Miquel Barceló pays tribute to Ramon Llull with a monumental fresco in Paris

On 22nd March the artist Miquel Barceló will inaugurate a gigantic fresco in Paris, 190 metres long by 6 metres high, drawn with mud on one of the glass walls of the inner courtyard of the National Library of France (BNF), in what will be one of the most important international events of the 700th anniversary of the Majorcan philosopher organized by the Institut Ramon Llull. Barceló is doing the fresco in situ, with a drawing scratched onto dry clay, and his work will serve to open ...
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Verona 
18/02/2016 Literature

The University of Verona hosts the international congress “Poetry, poetics and literary culture”, with the presentation of the translation of the Llibre de les bèsties

From 18th to 20th February, the Convivio Association, devoted to studying the poetry of songbooks, is organizing the international congress Poetry, poetics and literary culture at the University of Verona. Teachers from universities in Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands will be taking part in the congress, the fifth organized by the association, and in the context of the events organized for Llull Year it is planned to present the translation into Italian of Ramon Llull’s Llibre ...
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